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Contrast with [[Creature of Habit]]. |
Contrast with [[Creature of Habit]]. |
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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* [[Sherlock Holmes]]: "My mind rebels at stagnation." Gets clinically depressed when things get too quiet. For the record, the book version of Watson has a foot in both camps (domestic bliss with wife+running after Holmes on adventures = happy life), while the [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|film version]] wants to be a [[Creature of Habit]]...but Holmes at least plays on the assumption that his best bud is naturally Allergic To Routine. |
* [[Sherlock Holmes]]: "My mind rebels at stagnation." Gets clinically depressed when things get too quiet. For the record, the book version of Watson has a foot in both camps (domestic bliss with wife+running after Holmes on adventures = happy life), while the [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|film version]] wants to be a [[Creature of Habit]]...but Holmes at least plays on the assumption that his best bud is naturally Allergic To Routine. |
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** The [[Sherlock|modern TV version]] of Sherlock Holmes has an almost addictive need for mental stimulation and will go to any number of potentially dangerous lengths to avoid getting bored, [[Not So Different|a trait he shares with Moriarty]]. |
** The [[Sherlock|modern TV version]] of Sherlock Holmes has an almost addictive need for mental stimulation and will go to any number of potentially dangerous lengths to avoid getting bored, [[Not So Different|a trait he shares with Moriarty]]. |
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* The obligatory ''[[Discworld]]'' example would be Moist Von Lipwig of ''[[ |
* The obligatory ''[[Discworld]]'' example would be Moist Von Lipwig of ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', ''[[Making Money]]'', and ''[[Raising Steam]]''. After he outwits the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and gets the post office running again, he resorts to climbing walls and breaking into his own building to kill the monotony. Vetinari promptly shifts him to the bank, and when Moist turned that into a routine job as well, Vetinari noticed the first railroad engine and told Moist to build a rail line to Uberwald and stop asking why. One wonders what will happen when the city runs out of businesses for him to renovate, although Vetinari also notes that he doesn't seem to get bored like this when [[Tsundere|his fiancée]] is around. |
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor is terrified of domesticity and monotony - after all, this is the guy who regularly switches ''bodies'', never mind routines. This has caused some heartaches for his companions, who occasionally and understandably feel as if they're just replaceable amusements who get discarded when the Doctor gets bored. |
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor is terrified of domesticity and monotony - after all, this is the guy who regularly switches ''bodies'', never mind routines. This has caused some heartaches for his companions, who occasionally and understandably feel as if they're just replaceable amusements who get discarded when the Doctor gets bored. |
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** Given that he's gone through 11 bodies in the past 900-odd years, he actually keeps them slightly longer than the average human. |
** Given that he's gone through 11 bodies in the past 900-odd years, he actually keeps them slightly longer than the average human. |
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